Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-22
Daily Rsvtew.
GAZETTE OFFICE,

FORT WORTH, lex, oct. Il, 1881. !
Cotton is still coming in fairly well,
there being about 1875 bales sold here to-
day. Prices are little easy at quota
tions below, and slight drop Is looked
for.
The condition of trade to-day has been
Just opposite what it was yesterday.
While retail houses report business not
quite SO heavy as on yesterday, whole
sslers have been doing q most lively
trade.
The general depression which has ex-
listed in the hide markets for the past ten
months, has been almost unprece-
denied in the history of that
trade, and prices for hides have
never been SO low since 1S49 as they are
now. The eastern markets are over
stocked with all grades of these goods,
until there is very little chance for the
ives erD dealers to dispose of their stocks
st any price. The opening up of g new
marRet and the creating of demand
from new territory at this juncsure, there
fore, are most opportun", and will have 8
tendency to awaken Texas dealers to
greater activity and the Offering of better
prices. Very recently Mr.. A. Armentrout
of Fort Worth received orders for large
quantities of green hides from San Fran
cisco, and that gentleman considers the
offers so good that he has arranged q
shipment of two carloads, one
of green and one of tai
low, to go through at once
This Is entirely out of the usual order Of
the traffic in hides. While the California
people have for long time drawn share
of their requirements from Western and
Southwestern Texas they have never
heretofore been known to come SO far as
Fort Worth. Mr.. Armentrout considers
it probable that very extensive trade of
this nature will be built up when the ad-
vsntages to be derived from it are better
known. Dry hides will always find an
opening in the east, and California will
furnish q market for the green's.
HOG PRODUCTS.
The export movement of hog products
has been fairly active. The seas is
nearing its close. The 1st prox. begins q
new season, with it's four months packing
for the winter and eight months OF
summer packing in 1888 The number
of hogs in the country on January
l, 1887. was 44,612,S36, against
46,092,04S on January l, 1885, and
10, 143, 347 On January 1, 1885. The
annual slaughter, winter and summer,
at packing p ints ranges from - 500
900 to Is, 900 900, besides every farmer in
the land packs one or more hogs for do
mestic use. II the corn crop shall be
very much less than 1000. 600 600 bushels
it will not much diminish the number of
swine in the country until year hence
The population of 'he country is increas-
ing sboui 100000 annually, but even
with this annual accretion there will in
all probability be hog and hominy enough
for all the people for at least year 70
come. On the 18Th inst pork was barely
steady a. Sl5@15.25 for new mess and
$I4@14.25 for old mess. L,rd closed
barely steady, quiet; cash, Sc 20; Octo-
Der, Sc Il; November, Sc So; December,
Sc Sc; January, Sc 6l@6 62; February,
Sc 67. City dressed hogs, 65@75c, as to
weights. Beef and beef hams unchanged.
R fined lard for continent, 81; and for
West Indies, etc. 81 40. Starine, choice
city, hogsheads, 74@7sc Tallow sold st
Ice. City steam lard, 500. Cut
meats quiet. Picked bellies in bulk, 10
to IL pounds average, sc. Picked shout
ders, SIC. Smoked shoulders, CSC. West
ern steam lard is quoted at S6773@6.S5.
The freight DETERMINATIONS against ATTAIN
tic ports and in favor of direct shipment
from the west to Europe are quite as
serious in their effects on the business Of
the provision merchants here as upon the
-four merchants.-[ Bradstreet's.